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PASCAL, Statements, BREAK

 *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  The BREAK statement immediately transfers control to  the  first
  statement  past  the  end of the FOR, WHILE, or REPEAT statement
  that contains the BREAK statement.  The BREAK statement  appears
  as  a  single  word:   BREAK  is equivalent to a GOTO to a label
  placed just past the end of the closest FOR,  WHILE,  or  REPEAT
  statement.

  Use caution  when  using  the  BREAK  statement  because  future
  additions  to the code may result in the BREAK statement leaving
  a different loop than was originally intended.

  The following example shows the usage of the BREAK statement.

    name := GetInput('Your name?');
    IF ExitKeyPressed THEN BREAK;
    address := GetInput('Your address?');
    IF ExitKeyPressed THEN BREAK;
    Person[Num].Name := name;
    Person[Num].Addr := address;
    Num := SUCC(Num);
  UNTIL Num > 50;

  In the example, a user-defined function GetInput interacts  with
  the  user  and  sets a global Boolean variable ExitKeyPressed if
  the user presses an Exit key.  The  BREAK  statement  exits  the
  loop here, without storing data in the array.
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